Wiper Blades Designed For Aiding People.

July 17th, 2010

Every time for work I get straight into my automobile after grabbing some breakfast and deposit a small piece of metal into the autos ignition and switch the engine on almost entirely without any tangible effort. If it happens to be raining, foggy, spitting, misty or hail stoning I simply turn on the electric wiper blades with a deft flick of my wrist and hey presto I now have almost perfect free vision for the dangerous path ahead. On days when the weather is more favourable I like to pop the air conditioning on and put the automobs roof down all again at the turn of a switch with my small pinkie finger. All of these great advancements, especially the wiper blades, have gradually been developed over the years to form the present pinnacle of engineering of the modern car for which we take for granted almost every single day. As the days get shorter and the weather gradually worsens the value of the wiper blades begins to be apparent through converting other wise dangerous driving conditions into reasonable experiences. The research on how these wiper blades came to be is both absorbing and informative, according to my homework the wiper blade was invented at the turn of the twentieth century by a guy named Mr Apjohn but instead of the standard rubber fixtures we are familiar with today the machine utilised a pair of brushes to wipe the glass clean.

No doubt this assembly was far from optimal because not long after the brush was swapped with a rubber windscreen wipers just like the ones we use today. The design by a lady called Ms Anderson was no doubt received with open arms by the bourgeoning motorcar industry at the time. She also had the foresight to make a metal sweeping arm appliance in order to propel the windscreen wipers over the wind screen. The next step in the evolution of the windscreen wipers came in the form of the electric motor engineered to propel the wipers forward. These were invented by a Dr Wall after around a decade after Ms Anderson’s invention was patented.

The scope in replacement wiper blades innovation has pretty much been stopped over the years until very recently when rubber was supplanted by a revolutionary new material called silicone. The problem with rubber is that while it is bendy enough to conform to the curve of the windscreen the stuff itself is quite fragile and will break rapidly on play with water, ozone, pollution or ultra violet, precisely the sort of things it will come into contact with in other words. Another problem with rubber replacement wiper blades is that they are very reactive to changes in temperature, in hot summer weather they melt onto the wind screen and in cold winter conditions they freeze and lose their flex. Both of these events present a considerable issue both for the driver and for the replacement wiper blades designer, fortunately the dawn of silicone solves all of these problems. Silicone replacement wiper blades actually have all the properties needed to make a great replacement wiper blades counter acting all of the above problems with rubber.

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